Robots Must Be Ephemeralized

There is a subfield of robotics research called “sim-to-real” (sim2real) whereby one attempts to solve a robotic task in simulation, and the... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 2 years ago

Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism

  Eric Jang, "Ten Apes", Jun 19 2021. NFT "drop" coming soon. Andy Warhol once said, “Art is what you can get away with.” I interpret the qu... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 2 years ago

Sovereign Arcade: Currency as High-Margin Infrastructure

This essay is about how the powerful want to become countries, and the implications of cryptocurrencies on the sovereignty of nations. I’m n... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 2 years ago

Science and Engineering for Learning Robots

This is the text version of a talk I gave on March 12, 2021, at the Brown University Robotics Symposium. As always, all views are my own,... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 3 years ago

Software and Hardware for General Robots

Disclaimer, these are just my opinions and not necessarily those of my employer or robotics colleagues. Moravec's Paradox describes the obs... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 3 years ago

My Criteria for Reviewing Papers

Accept-or-reject decisions for the NeurIPS 2020  conference are out, with 9454 submissions and 1900 accepted papers (20% acceptance rate). C... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 3 years ago

Differentiable Path Tracing on the GPU/TPU (2019)

You can download a PDF (typset in LaTeX) of this blog post here . Jupyter Notebook Code on GitHub:  https://github.com/ericjang/pt-jax ... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 3 years ago

Three Questions That Keep Me Up at Night

A Google interview candidate recently asked me: "What are three big science questions that keep you up at night?" This was a great question ... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 4 years ago

Robinhood, Leverage, and Lemonade

DISCLAIMER: NO INVESTMENT OR LEGAL ADVICE The Content is for informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or ot... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 4 years ago

Tips for Training Likelihood Models

This is a tutorial on common practices in training generative models that optimize likelihood directly, such as autoregressive models and ... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 4 years ago

Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

Snapchat's new gender-bending filter is a source of endless fun and laughs at parties. The results are very pleasing to look at. As someone ... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 4 years ago

Uncertainty: a Tutorial

A PDF version of this post can be found here . Notions of uncertainty are tossed around in conversations around AI safety, risk management... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 5 years ago

Dijkstra's in Disguise: 3 algorithms independently discovered a fundamental

You can find a PDF version of this blog post here . A weighted graph is a data structure consisting of some vertices and edges, and each... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 5 years ago

Aesthetically Pleasing Learning Rates

By Eric Jang, Colin Raffel, Ishaan Gulrajani, Diogo Moitinho de Almeida In this blog post, we abandoned all pretense of theoretical rigor ... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 5 years ago

Dijkstra's in Disguise

You can find a PDF version of this blog post here . A weighted graph is a data structure consisting of some vertices and edges, and each... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 5 years ago

Bots and Thoughts from ICRA2018

The 35th International Conference on Robotics and Automation took place from May 21-25. I had a fantastic time attending my first ICRA: he... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 5 years ago